The water supply at the important district hospital there has remained cut for 19 days forcing the patients to shift elsewhere for medical services.
The authorities of the 250-bed hospital in the face of the suffocating situation have stopped new admission and started releasing the admitted patients to tackle the condition.
The poor patients are worst victim of the adverse situation.
Barisal Department of Public Health Engineering Assistant Engineer Ashok Kumar said they were trying best to restore water supply in the hospital and the task might take two more weeks to see the end.
After visiting the hospital and the department, it was learnt by the correspondent that the water pump went out of order on September 15.
Since then not only the patients also the nurses and physicians have been facing acute water crisis in the hospital.
When asked, the hospital’s Residential Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Delwar Hossain admitted the long-pending problem and said he floated an order of limiting admission to the emergency patients to tackle it initially and referring others to nearby Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.
Particularly patients in diarrhoea and medicine wards have been facing tough time amidst the disruption, said diarrhoea-caught patient Hosneara.
She continued that she had been compelled to leave the hospital just after taking prescription and medicine.
Another patient named Sushanta Sarkar from the medicine ward said the water crisis has turned the hospital into the hell.
Nur Hossain Farazi, ward master of the hospital, said though one of the two water pumps of the hospital had went out of order earlier in March, a major trouble appeared in the other on September 15 as well.
The RMO said the number of patients has halved in the hospital recently owing to the suffering.
They have already informed the matter to the higher authorities and local public works department was working to fix it, RMO Delwar went on.